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Two sorcerers-no bets on that.


The second dwarf was an adolescent, but age had nothing to do with prowess in sorcery. He inspected Rap warily. Apparently reassured, he closed
the shutters without raising a hand, while Raspnex started for the kitchen door.




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"What the Evil happened to your powers?" he demanded angrily. "Or is this some sort of trickery?"


"No trickery, " Rap said. "They're long gone. I can't pull a rabbit out of a hutch now."


"That's impossible! "


"No, but it's a long story. Who's the enemy?"


"My nephew. "


"Zinixo! " Just what Rap had feared-but it was a great relief to know that Raspnex himself was not on Zinixo's side. If he were, Rap would be a
devoted slave already.


"Thank the Gods I have only one!" the dwarf said sarcastically.


In the ambience, the two of them were face to face. In the slower mundane world, Rap's companions had barely registered his sudden silence, and
Raspnex was trudging across the kitchen, closely followed by his young companion. They wore the drab, shabby work clothes that dwarves
preferred, and they were both wet with melted snow.


So even a warlock dared not use sorcery in the open now? God of Horrors!


"I thought I had nailed that blackguard into a box he d never get out of!"


Rap said bitterly. He had used every scrap of his enormous demigod's power when he sealed his enemy in an occult shielding. How had the former
warlock escaped?